Legal Opinion

Cunningham v. Stender

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided March 30, 1953No. 16795PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Knauss

Defendant in error was the proponent in the county-court of Larimer County of a “lost” will alleged to have been executed by his widowed sister, Dorothea Cunningham, a resident of Ft. Collins, Colorado, in which instrument proponent, four of his brothers and sisters and a nephew were named as devisees and legatees. Caveat was filed by plaintiff in error, son and only heir at law of the alleged testatrix. In this caveat the son alleged that the will was not in existence when his mother died; that if she made such a will, she was not possessed of testamentary capacity at the time of the…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. In Re Estate of ForsytheSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1946
  2. In re the Estate of JernbergSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1922
  3. Wilson v. Board of Regents of the University of ColoradoSupreme Court of Colorado · 1909
  4. Bosheck v. GappaNebraska Supreme Court · 1938
  5. Ward v. Teller Reservoir & Irrigation Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1915

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. In Re Estate of RoeselerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1997
  2. Breeden v. StoneSupreme Court of Colorado · 2000
  3. Columbia Savings and Loan Ass'n v. CarpenterColorado Court of Appeals · 1974
  4. In Re Estate of GallavanColorado Court of Appeals · 2004
  5. In Re Estate of RomeroColorado Court of Appeals · 2005

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